Netflix Premieres Aileen Wuornos Documentary

A Netflix documentary titled Aileen: Queen of the Serial Killers premiered on Oct. 30, 2025, revisiting Aileen Wuornos’s life and crimes through archival footage, audio recordings and in-prison interviews, including previously unseen death-row material. Wuornos killed seven men in central Florida between 1989 and 1990, was arrested in 1991 after fingerprints linked her to a victim’s car, convicted in 1992 of six murders and executed in 2002 after roughly a decade on death row. The film foregrounds her claims of self‑defense, the robberies and vehicle thefts tied to the killings, and the abuse and trauma of her early life while presenting recordings in which she alternately speaks of pragmatism, love for her girlfriend Tyria Moore, and possibly protective or coerced confessions. Several reports note differing production attributions rather than a single set of credits, though most agree the documentary aims for a complex, sometimes contradictory reassessment of whether Wuornos was a cold‑blooded killer or a tragic product of circumstance.